Quotes by St. Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274
Aquinas was born near Aquino, Sicily and was an Italian Dominican theologian whose scholarship propelled him to the first rank among the Scholastics of the Middle Ages. His major works are the Summa theologica and the Summa contra gentiles.
War & Peace
St. Thomas Aquinas discusses the three conditions for a just war (1265-74)
Law
Thomas Aquinas on why the law should not punish imperfect men for practising vices which do not harm others (1274)